nakedsingularitytrans Alice Tale  May 9, 2018 17 Minutes

    The night progressed.

    Obtaining slightly calmer temperatures with the season, this is a place of repose since it’s within the bed.

    I’m bad with pitch darkness.

    In my own irreplaceable room, a magic crystal is giving off a dim light.

    But there’s something different from normal.

    「……Please pardon me, Eclair……munya.」

    「You don’t need to apologize even in your dreams, mou.」

    Since the silver girl sleeping next to her had started sleeping she’d occasionally apologize in this manner.

    She came to meet me with a flushed look so, I became surprised.

    But what drives me mad is that woman.

    There’s a distinct and eye catching mark on Alice’s porcelain like smooth white skin.

    I tried lightly reproducing those traces left on the nape of her neck with my finger.

    「Nn……」

    Alice moved her body like she was ticklish but, she was sleeping well and there were no signs of her waking up.

    「……Leaving a mark so as to show this to me. She intends to provoke me, doesn’t she?」

    I absolutely won’t forgive her, that wooman!

    Thinking such a thing, I’m completely unable to fall asleep.

    Since I’m completely completely unable to fall asleep!

    「Since on that note you also, let your guard down too much or such don’t you?」

    The anger I had taken control over once came bubbling back up.

    I understand that, you, idiot Alice!

    「……Heal.」

    I touched the nape of her neck with magic and, cleanly wiped away the mark.

    「Please at least, keep you personal appearance in order okay……idiot.」

    I stabbed her forehead lightly.

    As always for how she makes that sort of captivating appearance, she’s full of openings.

    What is this unbalance?

    Making a bitter smile, I turned my gaze from Alice as she slept while seeming happy to the ceiling.

    I wonder how long it has been, since I wasn’t alone, and――――

    I have held a demon eye since birth.

    My mother gave birth to me, and soon died.

    I heard that she was a person with a weak body to begin with but, probably, I can imagine how this demon eye could have effected her.

    That’s why I am――parricide.

    Sacrament principality, first royal daughter.

    Parricidal demon eye holder.

    That is my title.

    But, that sort of thing is not once officially announced to the world.

    「It’s the crimson unwanted child-sama.」

    「Ooh, scary scary.」

    Passing by knights or civil officials in the castle, I came to hear their scorn at a tiring frequency.

    They didn’t even pretend to take the attitude for facing a royal daughter but, there was a reason they called me 『Unwanted Child』 and despised me.

    Because it’s said that in history from long ago, a person of this country who held the same sort of demon eye betrayed the nobility, and drove the family into a corner.

    Since then, demon eye holders have been detested in this country.

    It is a taboo.

    Enough that if I act carelessly I could be executed just from having truth known.

    To speak of that point, I’m still being protected by my position.

    ……To begin with, something like a demon eye holder still wouldn’t be something to be welcomed or such even if it wasn’t this country though.

    In any case, it’s certain that I couldn’t pass my time as a young girl properly.

    Because of such a thing, it didn’t take all that long before I felt like I’d come to hate other people.

    My self from that period, saw everything around me as an enemy.

    If everything reflected in my eyes were to be burned away, just how simple would being in this world become.

    An ephemeral, child’s rash blind action.

    Taking off the necklace my father had told me to absolutely never remove, I 『Saw』 that person passing off a joke.

    ――In a moment, the world was dyed crimson.

    Originally, something like a child returning a grudge isn’t a major incident.

    But to me that is――――It was something major.

    When I came to, the necklace was placed on my neck and I had fallen to my knees in the castle’s courtyard.

    I was dazed.

    I still felt like I was in a trance, the truth before my eyes was hammered into me.

    Within the influence of a fire that wasn’t growing weaker…………two unidentifiable objects that had turned to ash were scattered before me.

    「A――A, AA―――」

    I don’t remember what came after that well.

    ――As punishment, it came to be that I was brought to the battlefield at an age where I hadn’t reached 10.

    During that time the principality was in a war with the land to its east.

    Sacrament is a country made by demons.

    The ruling nobility are all demons.

    Of course if you look at the ratios the humans are greater in number but, it’s built on that sort of foundation.

    That’s normal in just this country but, the race called 『Demons』 are despised by many.

    Perhaps they didn’t think well of this country’s systems, or perhaps that was simply a pretext and they really had political reasons, the eastern theocracy came to attack into it while raising the untrustworthy slogan called a crusade.

    The battlefield was a wasteland of whirling dust.

    In such a battlefield, all I saw was a body clad in elegant crimson equipment, I was brought to the furthest forward line.

    Looking at it from the enemy’s perspective, I’m nothing but an enemy to be cut down, I suppose I was nothing but a target.

    That was the intent of the principality.

    As they couldn’t execute me due to my position, they had to get rid of the problem in a plausible manner.